I cannot activate "Out of Office Assistance".

[Guest]

I have Outlook 2002. "Out of Office Assistance" is not showing up under
"Tools". I followed help's suggestion and made sure "Exchange Extensions"
was checked in "Add-in Manager." Still nothing. I closed Outlook and
reopened. Even ran repair but only Office was repaired not Outlook.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com


Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

 

[Guest]

Not on Exchange environment. My ISP is Comcast. Is there a way to do this
without having Outlook running 24/7? Thanks.

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com


Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

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I have Outlook 2002. "Out of Office Assistance" is not showing up under
"Tools". I followed help's suggestion and made sure "Exchange Extensions"
was checked in "Add-in Manager." Still nothing. I closed Outlook and
reopened. Even ran repair but only Office was repaired not Outlook.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Well not through Outlook or any other mail program then. See if your ISP has
an option for this in its webbased mailclient.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----

Not on Exchange environment. My ISP is Comcast. Is there a way to do
this
without having Outlook running 24/7? Thanks.

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located
under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that
replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set
some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply
on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you
could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com


Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----

I have Outlook 2002. "Out of Office Assistance" is not showing up under
"Tools". I followed help's suggestion and made sure "Exchange
Extensions"
was checked in "Add-in Manager." Still nothing. I closed Outlook and
reopened. Even ran repair but only Office was repaired not Outlook.

 

[Guest]

Just to make sure I understand you correctly, "Out of Office Assistance" can
ONLY work if Outlook is working in an Exchange invironment? Otherwise, I
have to use a rule?

Well not through Outlook or any other mail program then. See if your ISP has
an option for this in its webbased mailclient.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----

Not on Exchange environment. My ISP is Comcast. Is there a way to do
this
without having Outlook running 24/7? Thanks.

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located
under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that
replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set
some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply
on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you
could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com


Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----
I have Outlook 2002. "Out of Office Assistance" is not showing up under
"Tools". I followed help's suggestion and made sure "Exchange
Extensions"
was checked in "Add-in Manager." Still nothing. I closed Outlook and
reopened. Even ran repair but only Office was repaired not Outlook.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Just to make sure I understand you correctly, "Out of Office
Assistance" can ONLY work if Outlook is working in an Exchange
invironment? Otherwise, I have to use a rule?

Correct. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/autoreply.htm

 

[Guest]

Perfect. Thanks for the link.

Correct. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/autoreply.htm